New footage shows an expressionless iRonCub MK3 robot taking off using four thrusters — two where its arms should be and two in a jetpack on its back.

In the iCub robot, this can for example be used for the robot's visual perception. This requires a lot of relatively simple operations that must all be performed in parallel.

We can now tell our iCub robot to stop bugging us and go outside to play. That’s because instead of needing a long extension cord for power, the iCub robot now has a battery backpack – tested and ...

The iCub humanoid robot represents a standardized common open-source platform for research on embodied artificial intelligence (AI). It is available in 36 copies in laboratories across Europe, USA ...

The iCub robot does have a limited capacity to "learn" like a neural network (a type of artificial intelligence, or AI, that mimics the processes of a human brain), ...

The iCub 3 robot is a 52-kilogram, 125- centimetre-tall robot with 54 points of articulation across its aluminium alloy and plastic body. Its head contains two cameras where a human’s eyes would ...

It's my first time drumming along with a robot. I'm sitting across a table from an adorable humanoid robot called the iCub. We each have our own stick and box, and are meant to strike the box with ...

Why robots tend to be white. Given the diversity of people they will be exposed to, why does Kaspar, designed to interact with children with autism, have rubber skin that resembles a white person ...

Humanoid robots are symbols of power and technological capability, a geopolitics expert says. China and the US are going head-to-head `to mass produce them, like a 21st-century space race.

Sheffield Robotics is home to an upper-body iCub 2.0 robot (with head, arms, hands, and torso). The robot is particularly suited to research into human cognition and development, and robot learning.

It's my first time drumming along with a robot. I'm sitting across a table from an adorable humanoid robot called the iCub. We each have our own stick and box, and are meant to strike the box with ...